Meeting+Minutes

=Gerontology Meeting Minutes – June 14th, 2010=

Donna Goodridge Dierdre Bonnycastle Peggy MacLeod Susan Whiting Doug Surtees Jane Richardson
 * In Attendance:**

Agenda was adopted as circulated with the additions of : a) Core Interprofessional Competencies; b) Liaison with School of Public Health and c) Development of Planning Meeting.
 * 1.** //**Acceptance of agenda**//

Accepted as circulated
 * 2.** //**Acceptance of Minutes March 15, 2010**//

- Produced by NICE (National Initiative for Care of the Elderly) - May provide ideas for planning of this course and future minor/certificate in gerontology
 * 3.** //**Core Interprofessional Competencies for Gerontology**//

- The identifier for the course will be GERE - Discussion about the level of the course. A 300 level course was felt to provide more flexibility in the case of additional interprofessional gerontology courses than a 400 level course. Members present were in agreement with this change. - At present, there are no interprofessional courses at the undergraduate level (only at the grad level) at the U of S. o Many issues have come up since there is no precedent, specifically with tuition o Nursing courses are a category 3 for tuition but this is includes labs (which ours will not) o Pharmacy is category 3, nutrition is category 2, arts and science is category 1 o This is a problem because students from different programs may have to pay an additional fee to take the course o Follow-up from Seanine Warrington indicates that the course will be classified as a category 1 for tuition o Further work need to be undertaken to address the cost of the course for students who are taking this course as part of their program vs. additional to their program
 * 4.** //**Meeting with Coordinator, Academic Programs and Calendar**//

- The course will be housed in the College of Nursing

- Discussion about course prerequisites - We want to attract students who have some background in their discipline but not necessarily just 3rd and 4th year students - We want to eventually expand this program to allow students to minor in it - If this is the case, a 4th year class leaves us little room for a more advanced class….3rd year course would be better - Prerequisite for the course will be 30 credit units or permission of the instructor - Rationale for the course – it fits well with the curriculum, fills a gap, encourages interdisciplinary involvement - New Course Proposal Format – we will offer the course in January 2011 - The total hours would be 39 but we could break it up by having 30 lecture hours + 9 seminar hours - We will aim for 30 students for the first session o Is there a minimum? – depends on the college - An evening course will help prevent conflicts - Some programs do early balloting (e.g. Law) and registration o This will make it difficult for them to register in this course so late o For example, law students won’t be able to attend this unless there is a year warning - Textbooks – any suggestions for nursing texts? o We’d like an interprofessional book on aging – Novak? o We will find out what textbooks University of Regina use in their courses o APC wants to see that there is a good body of knowledge on the subject - Proposed Instructors o We would like to propose everyone as an instructor but we may need one person to take responsibility for the course (due to marking) o Ideally everyone will take responsibility for 1 or 2 lectures - Review Goals/Objectives o The 4 goals from the last meeting sound good o The description for the course is good but we should check the word limit
 * 5.** //**Course Challenge Process:**//

- Donna put together a 1st draft of the weekly outline - Week 1 – Introduction to the topic o self assessment of attitudes (which will be re-examined at the end of the course) - Week 2 – Sociology of Aging o Liz will need someone to work with her on this to keep the interdisciplinarity of the course - Week 3, 4, 5 – Normal Changes of Aging o will take 3 weeks, Jane has been added to this section (physiological changes added as well) o The PBL’s should be one case that progresses through into another (combine them) - Week 6 – Driving and Transportation o this topic lends itself to structured debate o We could get 55 Alive to present o Video done by 16 by 9 on older an older driver who killed someone o We will want to look at statistics, how they’re used - Week 7 – Promoting Health and Wellness for the Older Adult o Will include exercise o Also add Nutrition (Susan) o We will move this prior to the 2nd PBL in the Normal Changes of Aging o Common things that occur as you get older o Things from a medical perspective o Myths need to be dispelled - Week 8 – Housing o Doug + Donna – contact CPAS o We could look for people in other departments like geography o Someone could come out from Assisted Living o We will discuss the differences between assisted living and personal care homes o Could get someone from CPAS to talk about the different options o Need to discuss transportation in housing – these topics link o Issues of respite will be interesting - Week 9 and 10 –Elder Law o Doug will take charge with help from Donna and others o We could involve the police force o PLEA (Public Legal Education Association) – could help design case studies o They have the material it’s just a matter of combining the material into the way we want it – Doug will discuss this with them o We could use some of the money from the course to pay for this combining of the materials o Doug and Donna will meet with PLEA o Doug wrote out a list of topics that he thought would be useful and he will discuss them with PLEA o Doug wants students to understand basic law concepts o How age can be a factor in law o Need people to understand that age acts as a proxy for something else in law (cognitive decline, etc.) o Sustained preference concerns, guardianship issues, we need to include lots of cases o We could have a geriatric psychiatrist show the capacity assessments (Margaret Crossley) - Week 11 + 12 – Issues at the End of Life o Need to bring in medical professionals (Nora McPhee?) o Palliative Home Groups o Appropriateness of medications - Week 13 – Wrap-up
 * 6.** //**Draft Schedule**//**:**

- The persons responsible for this course is a moving target – not one professor - Everyone will pitch in - We will contact the faculty association (USFA) to discuss the implications of this course from a collective agreement perspective - Issues of reimbursement may arise - USFA may have a problem if no one were to take it as part of their teaching load - Consult Linda Suveges - SHR may have issues with how employees are used during work hours - Evening class may make this easier to accommodate as it is not in working hours
 * 7.** //**Persons Responsible:**//

- Humanities and arts throughout the course - Will include real people ,case studies + paper studies - 1st class – should include an older person (with a positive message)
 * 8.** //**Pedagogical Approaches**//

- As an option, instead of reflective paper, some kind of drama (film piece) or project - Wrap up day could be presentations - Reflective project – very creative - Deirdre has material on how to mark a film piece - A reflective group project can be a lot more work than a paper (40%) - The group project would reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the course - PBL’s could be marked (2 x 10% = 20%) - We could do short answers to questions about the PBL - Instead of a major paper, we could do 3 or 4 case studies that integrate different disciplines perspectives
 * 9.** //**Evaluation Strategies**//

- Need to develop a plan for assignment of marking - We need a rubric for consistency - 1 or 2 people to do each component - This is an issue – one person needs to be responsible for assigning the grade - For the group project – we could do one group mark with a small percentage of the grade done by peer review - We could have students assist with grading the presentations during the last class
 * 10.** //**Grading and Marking**//**:**

- Plan is to contact USFA to get feedback about the proposal - Nursing faculty approval will occur first in September, followed by course challenge - We will set up a wiki space to share ideas and work on documents - Use NSID’s to logon
 * 11.** //**Other Comments:**//

o They’re creating a graduate certificate program in gerontology so we should work with them to establish continuity
 * 12.** //**Liaison with Public Health**//

- Dr. Anju Moshi from McMaster will likely be the guest speaker (sociologist) - It will be a one day meeting - We could invite the council of aging, government people, long term care, etc. - Spotlight for Seniors is on October 5th so we don’t want to conflict with them - We will aim for Tuesday September 28th, 2010. - Alternate date – Tuesday October 19th - The day will be separated into morning and afternoon sessions to accommodate as many people as possible - Morning – presentation + roundtables - Afternoon – Planning + Feedback - We will expect between 40 -50 people - We’ll check food costs - Queen’s house may be a good venue (cheap + good parking) - We’d like the group to suggest people to invite
 * 13.** //**Stakeholder Meeting:**//

- There is an award being offered by the Gwenna Moss centre called the Provost Award for Innovative Practice in teaching and learning ([]) - This would be helpful in hiring an instructional designer for assistance with the creation of PBL’s and case studies - It is for $5,000 and the application is due August 31st
 * 14.** //**Funding Opportunities**//**:**

- We will need time at the next meeting to plan the stakeholder meeting in the fall - Our next meeting will be July 5th or 12th (Hollie will send doodle)
 * 15**//**. Next Meeting:**//